The reason I asked the question is not to assess blame, because who the heck knows...

I think we agree that the defining struggle of our times right now is this struggle between freedom and radical Islamic fundamentalism.

Israel must do its part to improve the conditions under which Palestinians live and seek to build a better future.

Peace can only come if all parties choose to do the difficult work, and choose to meet their responsibilities.

This committee has worked hard across party lines to support the President's decision to hold Saddam Hussein to account.

America is much more secure working with, and reaching out to, others than it is walking alone.

We inspire as much envy and resentment as we do admiration and gratitude.

Relations with many of our oldest friends are, quite frankly, scraping the bottom right now.

Foreign policy is not a popularity contest, as you well know.

As you know as well as anyone, America faces two overriding national security challenges in this century.

We must first win the struggle between freedom and radical Islamic fundamentalism.

Our role, as you rightly say, is to focus on what we can do to help them build capacity in their security forces and in their economy.

So do me a favor--as my mother would say, 'God love you, please do me favor'--start to tell the whole deal.

We are strongest when we are bipartisan. Historically in the old days with Senator Vandenberg and others, foreign policy picked up in a bipartisan fashion almost always and politics ended at the water's edge.

The informed consent.

I think we're going to rue the day when the administration acknowledges that they failed to level with the American people about what was required of the American people in order to make this policy work.

We leave before the job is done and we will have a generational problem.

Mr. President, I'll be with you when two things occur. One, when you, in fact, indicate what you're going to do after we win, because winning's not going to be the hard part; and, two, level with the American people about the cost, the…

Is that a good idea?

Do you see any possibility--now, everything is possible--do you see any reasonable possibility that the United States would withdraw the bulk of its forces before the end of 2005?

That is the mission that President Bush has set for America in the world--and the great mission of American diplomacy today.

There's no one in the room. Please cut all the malarkey. Is this training program worth a darn? And the answer was, 'No,' from our own trainer.

Get over it. Get over it. President Bush is our President for the next four years, so get over it and start to act in your interest, Europe.

I choose hope over experience.

And the time for diplomacy, in my view, is long overdue.